[G6Tanuki]

Here's what "The Setmakers" has:

Page 379, in the context of Rank-Bush-Murphy:

"Concurrently, RBM in collaboration with Plessey were pioneering the next stage in the evolution of the television receiver - the development of analog integrated circuits (ICs) each carrying out some functuion hitherto requiring a substantial number of transistors and other discrete components. In June 1968 they announced the first IC in the world to carry out the complex functions of decoding a PAL colour signal. It would be used in that autumn's new models and would replace 65 discrete components occupying an area of 36 square inches".

Then on page 385: "As originally designed the colour decoder in the Philips G8 employed two Mullard ICs and its designers were forcibly reminded of the space such components saved when - six weeks before the set was due to go into production, high strategy within the Philips organisation obliged Mullard to withdraw one of them, rendering the other unusable. The circuit hurriedly designed to replace them contained 98 discrete components. There was no way in which it could be fitted into the 3" by 3" space that the two ICs had occupied, so it was built on a separate board that sat above the original panel and overhung other components".